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Direct linkHordern, Jim – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
This paper draws on Bernstein's sociology of knowledge to examine the academic study of early childhood in England, involving scrutiny of how knowledge is recontextualised from contributory disciplines to take account of early childhood practice and professionalism, and of governmental influence on what counts as disciplinary and curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Educational Development
Hordern, Jim – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This paper focuses on the proposals for the introduction of "technical degrees" in English higher education institutions advanced by the Labour Party's Liam Byrne in a document entitled "Robbins Rebooted" which was published in August 2014 by the Social Market Foundation. The context and rationale for the proposed technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education
Hordern, Jim – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2014
This paper uses Bernsteinian concepts to identify how forms of power and control within teacher professional formation are exercised. Drawing on previous comparative work into collaborative models of teacher education and contemporary examples from school-based programmes, it is argued that current developments in England raise substantive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Education Programs
Hordern, Jim – International Journal of Training Research, 2015
This paper identifies how a series of higher apprenticeships projects funded by the UK coalition government in England between 2012 and 2014 are located within structures of professional and vocational formation. Factors that relate to the structuring of formation are discussed, including how notions of professionalization and legitimacy, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Workplace Learning
Hordern, Jim – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
This paper uses the concept of the productive system to identify some of the tensions between the stages of professional development of early years practitioners and the relationships between the various actors within the system of professional formation in England. In the context of the recommendations of the Nutbrown Review a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Professional Development, Early Childhood Education
Hordern, Jim – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2012
Higher education institutions take strategic decisions regarding their engagement with government policy, with choice of strategy structured by the character of the national system and notions of what is appropriate in given contexts for the institution. In this study a series of factors influencing institutional strategy in response to the higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
